How Does Psychedelic Treatment Work For PTSD? - Dr Martin Polanco & Michael Higgs - #494

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07/02/22

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Martin Polanco is Founder of The Mission Within and a Veteran Mental Health Advocate and Michael Higgs was Command Master Chief of a Navy SEAL team and is Director of Operations at The Mission Within.

For a very long time, once soldiers have finished in war, their battles have often continued back home. Both active and retired veterans suffer with childhood traumas, life traumas, divorces, opioid addiction, family issues, Traumatic Brain Injuries, deaths of team members, chronic pain injuries and long term inflammation. Martin and Michael believe that psychedelics are an important potential solution to give suffering veterans another shot at a functional life.

Expect to learn how iboga rewires the brain in 12 hours, why Michael held a gun to his head after being out of the seals for two years, the insane pressure placed on Special Forces operators by themselves, what happened when Michael ate 20g of mushrooms on a Native Indian reservation, how to sign up to Martin's current studies which he needs volunteers for and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (04:05) Dealing with Trauma in the Armed Forces (11:18) Martin’s Journey with Psychedelics (18:00) Commonalities of Veterans with PTSD (24:57) Taking Psychedelics for the First Time (33:42) How the Brain Restructures PTSD (43:55) Current Accessibility of Psychedelics (48:30) Side Effects of Psychedelics (52:33) Advice to Suffering Veterans (57:20) Where to Find Michael & Dr Polanco

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Where Do Our Beliefs Come From? - David McRaney - #493

June 30, 2022

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David McRaney is a psychologist, journalist and author.

Where do our beliefs come from? How do we form opinions? Why are we persuaded by some points of view but not by others? These are important to understand if we are to avoid developing a biased, unrepresentative worldview, they've also been the focus of the last few years of David's research.

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The World Needs More Fossil Fuels, Not Less - Alex Epstein - #495

July 4, 2022

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79m

Alex Epstein is an energy theorist, the Founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress and an author.

Fossil fuels are a contentious topic. If you've currently got your hands glued to the surface of a road in England, you may not want any more being used. But if we follow an environmentalist approach, what impact will reducing fossil fuel use have on human flourishing in the future, especially in the poorest parts of the world?

Expect to learn why all our energy cost so much right now, why 2 billion people get their energy by burning wood and dung, how renewable sources are causing more problems not less, Alex's thoughts on the modern ESG movement, whether fossil fuels will create a climate apocalypse, why China tried to stop Alex from releasing his book and much more...

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